Coach wants better ref's

[zebraman]

I was reading the sports page in the local newspaper a few days ago and the Seattle Sonics had started out the game with 7 fouls against them and only one against their opponent. The Sonics coaching staff was whining about the disparity and Danny Crawford said to them in reply, "that don't mean nothing!"

Now I'm not sure I would have used those exact words but Danny was right. It don't mean nothing! We just call the fouls. It's the players who comitt them. We might miss a call now and then but we aren't so bad that we're the reason that the foul count gets so lopsided.

I have no idea what the quality of officiating is like in that Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, but using free throw disparities as "supporting documentation" is just plain ignorant. Just maybe the losing team sucks and they play crappy defense.

Z